The sociology of health, illness, and health care : a critical approach
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The sociology of health, illness, and health care : a critical approach
Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2001
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-469) and index
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Description
This text adopts a critical perspective, which challenges medical perspectives and sometimes raises broader issues beyond those of interest to the medical world. This perspective, which is thoroughly sociological, is now becoming more common than the older medical perspective.
Table of Contents
- The social sources of illness
- the social distribution of illness in the united states
- illness in the developing nations
- the social meanings of illness
- the experience of chronic illness and disability
- (Part Contents)
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